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Leading global law firm, Baker McKenzie, has hired Sebastian Ma’ilei as a Transfer Pricing Partner in the Firm’s Tax team in London.

Prior to joining the Firm, Sebastian (Seb) worked, most recently, as a Transfer Pricing Partner in the London office of Deloitte, where he has a proven track record of generating transfer pricing work on international tax planning projects and tax disputes. He has a particular focus on the financial services industry, with experience of having worked with each of the Big 4 over the course of his career.

Seb has deep experience in large scale insurance and asset management (across traditional and alternatives managers) businesses, as well as clients in the renewable and technology sectors.

Baker McKenzie’s London Managing Partner, Ed Poulton, commented:

“It gives me great pleasure to be announcing Seb’s hire into our London office. His deep client relationships, and expertise across established and emerging industries like renewables and technology will be a tremendous asset to our team.”

Head of Tax in London at the Firm, Jessica Eden added:

“Seb’s stellar experience in transfer pricing for insurance and reinsurance clients is the perfect complement to our top tier tax practice.”

Seb joins the Firm on 1 December.

Baker McKenzie continues to accelerate aggressively its lateral growth strategy to add senior talent to its bench in London. Most recently, this has included Tax Partner, Sam Trowbridge, M&A Partner, Helen Johnson, Private Equity Real Estate Partner, Mark Thompson, Investment Funds Partner, Nick Benson, Energy & Infrastructure Partner, James Wyatt, Restructuring & Insolvency Partner, Kevin Heverin, Patent Litigation Partner, Indradeep Bhattacharya, and Corporate M&A Partner, Michal Berkner.

With more than 2,700 deal practitioners in 45 jurisdictions, Baker McKenzie is a transactional powerhouse. The Firm excels in complex, cross-border transactions; over 65% of our deals are multijurisdictional. Baker McKenzie has been consistently recognised as a top-three firm for cross-border M&A by volume over the past decade. The teams are a hybrid of ‘local’ and ‘global,’ combining money-market sophistication with local excellence.

Baker McKenzie’s Tax team is among the most highly rated and recommended tax advisers worldwide, top ranked by international tax directories in more jurisdictions than any other law firm.